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N.o.243,o64. Patented1un'e.2|,|s81.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PETER DRAIS, OF WASHINGTON COURT-HOUSE, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO ALMER HEGLERAND ELIJAH HOPKINS, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

NOSE-RING..

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 243,064, dated June 21,1881.

Application filed April 30, 1881.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, PETER DRAIs, ofWashington Court-House, in the county of Fayette and State of Ohio, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Nose-Rings; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionot' the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art towhich it pertains to make and use it, reference 1o being had to theaccompanying drawings,

which forni part ot' this specification.

My invention relates 'to an improvement in nose-rings, the object of thesame being to prevent hogs from rooting, and also to enable the I5animals to be identified by providing an clongated neck to the ring,which serves the double purpose for attaching a tag and also allowingthe meeting ends of the ring to be widely separated without breaking thebers of the metal.

zo I/Vith these ends in View my invention cousists incertain details inconstruction and arrangement of parts, as will be more fully eX-plained, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a view ofthe ring with itsmeeting ends open, and Fig.2 is aview of the same with the ends closedand locked and the tag in position.

A represents the ring, made of any suitable metal, having an eye, a,formed thereon at one 3o extremity, into which the opposite end, b,which is sharpened or pointed to penetrate the snout, enters. Ifdesired, this sharpened or pointed end may be clinched or turned underthe eye, which will eftectually hold the ring in position and preventits heilig withdrawn if the animal attempts to root when the ring is inposition.

These rings are constructed by amachine patened to me October26, 1880,No. 233,606, wherein will be found the manner of makingthe same. Theelongated neck B, or that portion of the ring which receives the tag, isformed by curving the wire and running the same backward a shortdistance toward the starting-point parallel to the lower portion ofthesaid neck. The wire is then continued upward at right angles to the topof the neck B the desired distance, and is then curved over anddescends, with the sharp or pointed end passing through the eye.

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When the ring is turned out from the machine referred to it is in theposition represent- 5o ed in Fig. 1, with the pointed end b thrown upand out of engagement with the eye a.

To place the ring in the animals nose, the tag C is first placed on thering, and the ring then placed iu the nose-ringer and secured in theusual manner, with the elongated neck and tag sticking outward, whichprevents the hog from rooting by providing a leverage which acts withsufficient effect, and also allows the tag to be easily examined toascertain the own- 6o ers name or any memorandum that may be stampedthereon. The elongated neck also allows the ring to be used auumberot'times without materially weakening the same or breaking thefibers, as is the case with a great major-ity ot' the rings now in use,where all the strain caused by the bending comes on a sharp angle, wherethere is iusutcient metal to withstand the strain while being made, andalso during its introduction in the hogs nose; but 7o with my improvedring I am enabled to bring -the pointed end into the eye when the partsare widely separated without injury to the same. When the ring has beensecured in the nose of the hog the tag is prevented from slipping andsliding backward and getting under the hogs snout by bringing the innerfaces ot' the elongated neck in apposition near the inner end oftheneck, which retains the ring in position.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire t0secure by Letters Patent, is-

As an article of manufacture, a nose-ring bent substantially as shown,having an eye, an elongated neck for attaching a tag, and a sharp orpointed end to enter the eye, substantially as set forth.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand andseal this 26th 9o day of April, 1881.

PETER DRAIs. [n s] Witnesses ALIvnR HEGLER, ELIJAH HoPIIINs.

